🚀 go-pugleaf

It was the Wed, 08 Sep 1999 02:39:04 GMT...
..and Matthew Cline <mcline@rainbow.com> wrote:
> - What are the differences in design philosophy between KDE and GNOME,
>   besides the QPL/GPL issue?

Numerous. There are white papers on www.gnome.org.

> - What are their architectural differences?
> - What are the differences between GTK+ and Qt, beside GPL vs QPL and
>   C vs C++?

Well, GTK+ does not tack on features to its base language and thus
doesn't need a meta-object compiler like Qt. 

> - Which has more end users?

How does that matter?

> - Which project has more developers?

Gnome has got about 250 - 270. I don't know about KDE.

> - Which project is gaining developers at a faster rate?

How does that matter? Choose the train you want to jump on by whether
it's going the right way, not by how many people are riding it.

> - Which project has gotten further along with document embedding (like
>   OLE)?
> - Which project has gotten further along with dynamic component 
>   linking (like COM/DCOM)?
> - Which project has gotten further along with its office suite?
> - How hard would it be to make an application both KDE aware and GNOME
>   aware?

Hm... Very. You would have got to separate the UI from the back end
completely, write the whole beast in C++ and write two front ends,
one using GTK--/Gnome, the other one Qt/KDE.

mawa
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